Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with Ant. c. 200x. In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits. Ant. crud. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected (Graph. the whole margin). Otorrhoea. Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.). Slight noises startle. Nose-bleed with vertigo; after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at. Adults are sulky or sad. Weeping and impressionable. Sentimental mood by moonlight. Amativeness. Suicidal. Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention. There is a form of diarrhoea which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant. crud. corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings—restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c. Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant. crud. prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white tongue. A notable characteristic of Ant. crud. is the thickly coated tongue. Generally it is thick and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating; emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (Aethus c., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant. c. the child refuses to nurse again). The sulphur element in Ant. crud. is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders of the drug. < By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls., Cham., Secale, Camph.); also < from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions. Moonlight < mental symptoms. Many symptoms are < at night. < By touch. < From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down; < rising up; < ascending stairs.
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Mind Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like than of an insane person.—Desponding reflections upon one's condition.—Disgust of life, with an inclination to blow one's brains out, or to drown oneself.—Tendency to be frightened.—Peevish humour, ill-humour.—To be looked at and to be touched are unbearable (in the case of a child).—Dull intellect, imbecility.—Madness.
Head Confusion of head, as after long labour in the cold.—A feeling of intoxication.—Dizziness with nausea, or bleeding of the nose.—Attack of apoplexy, with frothy salivation.—Cephalalgia, after bathing in running water.—Cephalalgia with dizziness from the smoke of tobacco; better in the open air.—Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst.—Dull pain in the sinciput and vertex, increased by going upstairs.—Cramp-like pain in the head, ameliorated by walking in the open air.—Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples.—Sharp pains as from knives in head and under l. breast.—Congestion in the head, painful and followed by epistaxis.—Pain in the bones at the vertex, as if from a swelling in the periosteum.—Teasing itching in the head, with failing off of the hair.
Eyes Shooting in the eyes.—Red, inflamed eyelids.—Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.—Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of the eye.—Humour in the corners of the eyes.—Enlargement of the eyes.—Sensibility of the eyes to the light of day.—Blindness.—Chronic sore eyes of children.
Stomach Eructations with taste of food, or very acid.—Regurgitation of a watery fluid.—Hiccough on smoking tobacco.—Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if caused by indigestion.—Heartburn with good appetite.—Nausea after taking wine.—Nausea and vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine.—Vomiting of mucus and of bile, sometimes accompanied by diarrhoea, great anxiety, and convulsions.—Pain, burning, and cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown oneself.—Tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach.—Painful sensation, as if the stomach were overloaded with food.—Pain in the region of the stomach on being touched.—Gastric catarrh with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.
Female Sexual Organs Metrorrhagia.—Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina.—Nymphomania from checked catamenia.—Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by a bath.—Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy.—Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, esp. during uterine haemorrhage.—Toothache before the menses, with boring in the temples.—Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhoea, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs.—Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea during pregnancy.
Respiratory Organs Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air.—Great weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm.—Looking into the fire increases cough.—Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate.—Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation.—Cough, with burning in the chest.—Morning cough, dry and shaking.—Whooping-cough.—Cough as if arising from abdomen.
Neck And Back Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.—Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.—Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.
Lower Limbs Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, esp. in the coxo-femoral joint.—Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs.—Violent pain in the lower extremities.—Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time.—Shooting pain in the knee and in the tibia.—Drawing pain in knees, lower part l. tibia, in l. heel, and tearing through the r. great toe.—Tumour or white swelling of the knee.—Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the extension of the leg.—Vesicles on the knee after scratching it.—Sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement.—Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking.—Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the toes.—Pressive pain in the corns.—Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe.—Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe.
Skin Itching, esp. in the neck, chest, back and limbs.—Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep.—Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash.—Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects.—Measles-like eruption.—Eruptions, similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure.—Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers.—Urticaria white, with red areolae, which itch fearfully.—Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf.—Freckles.—Hepatic spots.—Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers.—Fistulous ulcers.—Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organisations of the skin.—Corns and callous excrescences on the feet.—Nails discoloured and deformed.—Red and hot swellings.—Degeneration of the skin.—Fungus of the joints.
Sleep Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or morning.—Coma with delirium.—Waking with fright during the night.—Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.
Fever Chilliness predominating even in the warm room.—Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air.—Heat, esp. during the night, before midnight, with cold feet.—Great heat from little exercise, esp. in the sun.—Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with moderate thirst, diarrhoea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting pains.—Tertian fever.—Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day.—Pulse irregular, sometimes quick, sometimes slow.
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Antidoted by Calcarea Carbonica 2, Hepar 2, Mercurius Solubilis 2+4
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